Fimoculous

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Fimoculous

This is my Tumblr. Other, more desirable things that are mine:

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Hey look, I wrote a book! — Hey look, I wrote **a book!**

backchannel.com

The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof. — Backchannel

A writer returns to his remote hometown — once isolated, now connected — and answers the unanswerable

Rex Sorgatz

This story starts with a question: “How have technology and mass media changed us?” To find an answer, I travel to an unusual place — my hometown on the prairie, where the economics, politics, demographics, and geography are static.

It’s all a mystery.

decider.com

"Not Guilty" Pleasure: Why We Love but Distrust True Crime

The elixir that transforms a crime into a true crime story is not necessarily truth. High production value, superlative writing, and exemplary editing are the alchemic ingredients of the medium.

Where Is My Mind?

Tumblr is for angsty teens playing around with their identity, right?

**How Netflix Broke The Unbreakable Spoiler Alert**

I sing songs to my dog in the morning.

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She’s a good girl.
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Loves horses.
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It’s a long day.
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There’s a freeway.
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Running through the yard.
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Walking through the valley.
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I wanna write your name in the sky.

I made maps! For my essay about what it has been like to live about the World Trade Center site.

Life Atop Ground Zero

It is a series of vignettes about watching, being watched, tourism architectural #selfies, Conde Nast, land reclamation, BASE Jumpers, Occupy Wall Street, Goldman, 25th Hour, the dream of the city, surveillance, American fantasy, memory, and forgetting.

The Artist, the Thief, the Forger, and Her Lover
How did the “Mona Lisa” become famous? In part five in this series, the biggest art heist of all time connects the forger and the thief. — **The Artist, the Thief, the Forger, and Her Lover**
How did the “Mona Lisa” become famous? In part five in this series, the biggest art heist of all time connects the forger and the thief.

medium.com

The End of Authentication

Woo-hoo! You just discovered a Vermeer in your aunt’s basement. But who will verify if it is real? In part four of this series, we find a surprising answer: maybe no one.

stellar-status

Our Incredible Journey?

Hi all, Jason here. I am not at all excited or happy or thrilled to announce that Stellar has been shut down and will not be coming back. This was not an easy decision to make. Building the site was some of the most fun I have ever had and watching people use and love it, well, it was very satisfying both personally and professionally. But as the reasons for discontinuing Stellar piled up over the past 2-3 years, it became obvious even to me that it was the only way forward.

Stellar never caught on the way I had hoped it would, and the cost (both in dollars and in even more precious time) doesn’t allow me to give it – and you – the attention that’s deserved. The site has been unstable since late 2015 and non-responsive since April, and it’s well past time to make it official. It’s better to be a fond memory than an on-going frustration.

But straight from the heart: thank you thank you thank you all for being a part of it, and I’m very sorry it can’t go on longer.

Your data

For all users, a list of URLs for the tweets, photos, and videos you faved will be made available at some point in the next few months…I can’t say when exactly, but I’m committed to making it happen. I’ll provide details on this blog and on the Stellar Twitter account when it does. If there is interest, I can also make a list of the accounts you followed on Stellar available as well.

Refunds

For those of you who helped support Stellar with Fun Pass memberships, I’d like to thank you sincerely for the support. All memberships were permanently suspended earlier this year, and I have already issued full refunds for passes purchased after Nov 1, 2015, a few months before the site became inaccessible. If you didn’t see a refund on your CC statement or if you’d like a full or partial refund for any pass purchased in 2015, drop me a line at jason@kottke.org and I’ll get it sorted.

Goodbye

I’m not good at quitting things. When I die, that will probably be on my tombstone: “Jason Kottke. Not good at quitting things.” I’m trying hard not to think of Stellar as a failure, and I hope you can, too. I’m grateful for the time, care, concern, and enthusiasm you’ve given it over the years, and I hope the site brought you some measure of the same in return.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for using Stellar.

P.S. Thanks also to everyone who offered to help out with Stellar (that’s amazing!) and to those who I actually suckered into pitching in. In particular, I’d like to once more acknowledge Greg Knauss, currently beavering away on Talkshow. People say things like this a lot, but in this case it is actually literally true: Stellar would not have existed without Greg. Period. Thank you so much, Greg, for everything.